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  1. Re:12,900 years ago? on More Evidence For a Clovis-Killer Comet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interesting. What's the SI unit of religious zealotry, and what type of apparatus is used to measure it?

    The Jihadi. It is nominally defined as the rate at which the zealot can destroy knowledge.

    1 Jihadi = 1 Burning Library of Congress (BLoC) per fortnight.

  2. Re:No Idea what the techspecs are on this but on First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why the heck can't they build a 32-bit subsystem on top of the 64-bit windows? I'll ignore the fact that Linux does this fairly seamlessly, and instead focus on the fact that this is exactly how MS made the jump from 16-bit to 32-bit. The fact that they did not do this with Vista is shocking. How on earth did they craft an operating system that uses 10x the resources of its predecessor, but appears to offer nothing in the way of new features, save for a security setup and UI that was state-of-the-art in the late 90s.

  3. Re:Right on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 1

    And all bets tend to be off at border stops, especially internationally. As far as I'm aware, they have the legal (USA PATRIOT act legal, anyways) right to search your vehicle entirely at any international border.

    This right predates the Patriot Act buy decades. You can be searched and detained as they see fit at a border. The government also has broad search and seizure rights within 50 miles of the border. This also predates the Patriot Act.

  4. Re:Even though no one dies from them. on Botnets As "eWMDs" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, an attack consisting of several simultaneous bombs in several areas of a city, combined with a systematic botnet attack of the major hospitals of the same city sounds quite evil...

    ..all of those doctors would be unable to properly bill for their services. Oh, the humanity!

  5. Re:I thought the proper metric was suckage.... on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 5, Funny

    As in Windows 7 will suck less than Vista...

    I'm sure that feature will be removed prior to the release date.

  6. Re:What about Kubuntu 8.10? on What Normal Users Can Expect From Ubuntu 8.10 · · Score: 1

    It's almost like it is still in beta, and not due to be released until the end of the month...

  7. Re:This is a not true on Ballmer Admits Google Apps Are Biting Into MS Office · · Score: 1

    ...in their (MS's) own studies almost all college students buy MS Office and use it.

    Perhaps this is true because MS sells Office on college campuses for a fair price, something like $99.

  8. Re:Credit crunch my butt on Tesla Motors Shaken Up, Laying Off · · Score: 3, Insightful

    given the American auto industry's reactionary and disingenuous attitude towards eco-vehicles, i think Tesla would be better off allying itself with a foreign company such as Honda or Toyota, both of which have shown a genuine interest in meeting public demand for environmentally friendly vehicles.

    I'm not sure why they would bother, as Tesla has nothing to offer either Toyota or Honda (or frankly GM or Chrysler).

    Their battery, motor, and chassis technology are all purchased from other firms. Furthermore, all four of the above companies have more developed technologies than Tesla does.

    Japanese auto makers seem more willing to research and develop new technologies than American car manufacturers.

    Actually, you'll find European makes pushing the technology barrier further, at great cost. The US makes typically follow the EU lead, with varying amounts of success. Japanese makers typically implement tried and true technologies in a very efficient, cost effective manner.

    The exception to this is hybrids. However, Europe has avoided them, as they can get equivalent or better performance from Diesels.

  9. Re:Ok, I'm sold on Algorithms Can Make You Pretty · · Score: 5, Funny

    The algorithms is installed using a liquid sold in cans and bottles, usually labeled as "beer."

  10. Re:Sorry, Swoosh belongs to Nike. on Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding? · · Score: 5, Funny

    RFC 9835 specifically calls for a "whoosh." The use of "swoosh" has been depreciated.

  11. Re:MS makes no sense on Closing the Cover on Microsoft Book Scanning · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's clear that Microsoft needs a different approach instead of throwing money, developers, marketers, and chairs at anything that doesn't work well enough. Fixed it for ya.
  12. Re:Abandon this project? on Honeywell & Airbus To Turn Algae Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    ...but it has the same emissions, same carbon footprint... Umm, not quite. Fuel generated from biomass does not create an increase in carbon, as the biomass took the carbon from the environment to begin with.
  13. Exim + Spamassassin on Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 1
    I use exim4 with the sa-exim patches to allow spamassassin checks while the TCP connections is open. We use this in a 160 user company.

    Be sure your setup does all the checks at while the SMTP connection is open, so you can avoid backscatter. I use greylisting to help avoid false positives. I also use callbacks to verify the authenticity of the sender. I'd recommend caution here, because this can really cause false positives.

    Be sure to have good HELO filtering rules, as that will detect a surprising majority of spam and viruses, as well as misconfigured exchange servers that don't use a FQDN in the HELO line.

  14. Orange, meet Apple on Microsoft Under Third EU Investigation for OOXML · · Score: 1

    We don't yell at GM for not making its On-star open to everyone.
    GM's not a monopoly, and other automakers use OnStar's service, namely Honda on its Acura vehicles.
  15. Running one big WAN on LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40? · · Score: 1

    The thought of just the ARP traffic alone is a bit staggering.

  16. Re:Switchgrass is a one trick pony. on Switchgrass Makes Better Ethanol Than Corn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now, if I remember right, one can plant legumes and they will perform nitrogen fixation to resupply the soil. ...and legumes certainly create natural gas.

  17. Re:I agree completely on Number of Cellphones Now Equal To Half the Human Species · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is driving a stick shift distracting, unless your driving skill are lacking? If anything, a manual transmission makes you far more aware of what your car is doing at any given moment.

  18. Re:Both the Dems and the Reps... on US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Your list: Gulf of Tonkin, Rolling Thunder, 1968 Democratic convention, J Edgar Hoover's decades of antics, Jim Crow, Japanese Internment, Bay of Pigs. As for habeus corpus, Bill Clinton signed the first limitation since the civil war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
    This does not absolve the present junta of any of its misdeeds, however. But it does refute your point.

  19. Re:Tautology on Mercury May Have Molten Hot Magma at its Core · · Score: 1

    The headline was written and authored by an undisclosed, secret, and unpublicized government agency: the Ministry, Department, and Directorate of Duplication and Repetitive Redundancy.

  20. Re:IE protected mode on Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling · · Score: 1

    protected mode IE limits the scope of what the running code can do.

    ...at least until there are confirmed privilege-escalation exploits published. This feature makes windows more secure, but it is not a silver bullet.

  21. Re:So let me get this straight... on New IAB Chair Defends DNSSEC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Using that definition, I guess IPv6 is a overwhelming success too. Why does the world insist pushing technology solutions that no one wants?